" In light of Ignatius' 'Two Standards' and 'The Mystries Done From The Garden To The House Of Annas', at any moment we can be Judas or Peter, a Christian life can be a fine line."

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Fordham University Professor Attacks Supreme Court And Say's Four Letter Word Are A OK!

What about those four letter words?

Another grim, outrageous, but not really surprising ruling on the First Amendment from the

US Supreme Court today, which held 5-4 that fleeting or single-word expletives on broadcast television and radio shows could be fined millions of dollars.

A lower U.S. Appeals Court in New York had found the FCC fines "arbitrary and capricious," by Justice Scalia, writing for the Supreme Court majority, reasoned that "the F-word's power to insult and offend derives from its sexual meaning."

So? Whatever the psychological wellsprings of its semantic power,

what counts is whether any Federal agency has the right to fine any broadcaster or anyone, any amount of money, for saying the word "f..ck" one or a dozen times,

sotto voce or with trumpets blaring, given that the First Amendment to our Constitution says "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech".

The linguist Scalia and his four similarly minded colleagues on the bench not only are showing utter contempt for the First Amendment,

but are violating their own sacred conservative principle of not "legislating from the bench" with this dangerous ruling.

About Me

I am not a Jesuit, nor am I a cleric. I spent about 5 years under the spiritual direction of a Jesuit, 3 of those years in a weekly directed retreat in everyday life. The profound impact that the Society and the Excercises had upon my life, resulted in me, trying to deal with that impact in some way by sharing my view of Jesus Christ with others. My intention is to pull together Jesuitical and Catholic subjects that interest me. I was born on the feast day of St. Paul Miki, S.J.. I am the father of three small children and an infant, I am married to a great wife.